Through community, Indigenous students thrive in STEM
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Indigenous students in STEM are creating community and working to increase representation and visibility – all while bringing valuable cultural insights and a community-focus to their academic work.
Vertebrate 3D scan project opens collections to all
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A venture to digitize vertebrate museum collections and make them freely available online for anyone to access has created 3D CT scans of some 13,000 specimens.
Admitted Class of 2028 personifies Cornell’s founding principles
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The 5,139 admitted students will bring with them a variety of lived experiences that will enrich the vitality and innovation of Cornell’s intellectual community.
Lyrebird synchronizes elements of its mating dance
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To woo a mate, the Albert’s lyrebird of Australia shakes entangled vines as part of his courtship footwork, synchronizing each shake with the beat of his striking song, according to new research.
'A completely different game’: Faculty, students harness AI in classes
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Faculty members are finding creative ways to deal with generative AI in their courses. Winners of Cornell’s 2024 Teaching Innovation Awards will discuss their approaches on April 11.
Gil Levine, champion of international collaboration, dies at 96
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Gilbert Levine ’48, Ph.D. ’52, whose 68 years of service to Cornell were devoted to fostering multidisciplinary and international collaboration, died Feb. 5 in Fitchburg, Wisconsin.
COMM Updates - 3/26/2024
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Solar eclipse could scramble bird behavior
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Researchers plan to measure the impact of the April 8 solar eclipse on the movements of birds, bats and insects – flying creatures that are very attuned to changes in light levels.
Flexible due dates lower student stress without loss of rigor
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Researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have created an “extension without penalty” system that features two assignment deadlines – an “ideal” and an EWP – and charted how the penalty-free extensions were used by students.
Insect-based food: sustainable, nutritious – but not religious
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Eating flours, burgers and fitness bars made from crickets, mealworms or black soldier fly larvae could help feed a growing global population sustainably, but it might hit resistance from those who follow halal or kosher regulations.
COMM Updates - 3/19/2024
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Hunter named field crops IPM coordinator
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Students explore Costa Rica's agriculture and food systems
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Global development students got hands-on experience with topics from labor conditions to trade policies and the production of specialty crops such as flowers, pineapples and coffee.
Computer model helps grape growers adapt to shorter winters
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A new Cornell-developed computer model that estimates the temperatures that cause freeze damage in a dozen grape cultivars can help growers plan for the season when damage does occur.
Manure boosts hidden ecosystem beneath our feet
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65 years later, paper was ‘worth the wait’
Field Note
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Citizen scientists’ ‘glass eel’ data helps protect Hudson River
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The Hudson River Eel Project – which has netted, counted and released roughly 2 million juvenile eels since its inception in 2008 – owes its success to a cadre of nearly 1,000 high school, college and adult citizen scientists donating time and...